Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 023ea4f0d1dd0a88…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-09-01 07:50:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: f885813ebd2780da49c129dc61db1903 SHA-1: 7544bc79565c47725fde359d035f9b896c8e558d SHA-256: 023ea4f0d1dd0a881f8ae73a182efb0ec21916bd6212b1c26dac007f14618566
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a callback phishing lure. The document likely contains embedded JavaScript, as indicated by the 'PDF_JS' heuristic, which could be used to facilitate the scam. The presence of numerous links to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting further supports the malicious intent, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to host malicious content or redirect users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3437301e66---jamuzujekaselopunek.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://somersetcountybar.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/63403690694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niktid.ru/userfiles/file/72148088289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youandisagenix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mubawijujosagifojesekabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab1a5537a4---32147544953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipost.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2532807069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eaas-journal.org/survey/userfiles/files/sejafexuvofil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otevrel.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pigikexubakuzexukori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilateralmatters.org/userfiles/file/5946692572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elpmarketing.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e54602cf31e77b253c3620f503c7c0e/rubolis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dagmarsvendova.cz/admin/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/458579446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happy-travel089.com/CKEdit/upload/files/97424892432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudureornementalelauziere.com/upload/editor/file/75823070282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad330d06327---wimadimegomowes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burragebrothers.com/demo/jolie/beta/userfiles/files/muxigeworufegipikivovuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alarrabnews.com/images/content/content/file/53487084739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalwedding.jp/images/blog/file/vofuwajuzojederekazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608435b006650---filezefetarelup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a-metal.e-giant.net/archive/file/files/3814211904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://posaonakosovu.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65458973920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isosklo.cz./uploads/jovofemerafane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elegune.net/files/galeria/files/gopewizapiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://engineersclasses4competition.com/files/others/fixokuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaan121.com/uploads//files/202108102254539444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secohthailand.com/file_media/file_image/file/29516766454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=shape+of+distribution+mean+and+medianPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e78c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE78C 11032 bytes
SHA-256: 20187759093a58360fe617dcd5e43e657e943b413faa8910fec9fa95fb6b6b90
font_01_sfnt_off000100c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100C8 18600 bytes
SHA-256: b535ec4f8658609f208a4242157e55c73d28ae68266815ee69289d300342b71c
font_02_sfnt_off000131c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131C8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1